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  EBL partners with ITFC to support SMEs

  Business Desk | Updated at 10:47pm on January 23, 2021

  Eastern Bank Limited has signed a Murabaha financing facility deal with the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation, a member of the Islamic Development Bank Group,...

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  Bangladesh Bank asks bank directors, top 3 execs to report by Feb

  HM Murtuza | Updated at 10:49pm on January 22, 2021

  The Bangladesh Bank has asked all the banks’ directors, managing directors and two other officials immediately in rank next to the MDs to submit reports...

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  ECB meets as virus woes weigh on eurozone

  Agence France-Presse . Frankfurt am Main | Updated at 10:23pm on January 21, 2021

  European Central Bank governors meet on Thursday to take stock of their monetary stimulus efforts as more infectious strains of the coronavirus and stricter shutdowns...

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  Bank of Japan revises up growth outlook for next 2yrs

  Agence France-Presse . Tokyo | Updated at 10:23pm on January 21, 2021

  The Bank of Japan on Thursday revised its growth outlook upwards for the next two years and maintained its ultra-loose monetary policy as it warned...

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  BB withdraws cyber security alert, nullifies malware

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:11pm on January 21, 2021

  Internet connectivity for most of the officials of the Bangladesh Bank was restored on Thursday after being snapped for ordinary users for 10 days as...

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  ILFSL managing director MA Khaleque resigns

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:39am on January 21, 2021

  International Leasing and Financial Services Limited managing director MA Khaleque Khan resigned from the troubled non-bank financial institutions amid the entity’s failure to repay deposits’...

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  DCH Trust launches free health care for poor, orphan, disabled children

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 12:26am on January 21, 2021

  The Dhaka Community Hospital Trust on Wednesday launched a school healthcare programme, offering free medical services for orphan, poor and disabled children. Dhaka district deputy...

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  14 banks’ average lending rate falls below 7pc

  HM Murtuza | Updated at 11:51pm on January 20, 2021

  Weighted average lending rate of 14 banks dropped below 7 per cent in December 2020 due mainly to the setting of lending rate ceiling at...

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  Amin elected NRB Bank EC chair

  | Updated at 11:39pm on January 20, 2021

  Khandakar Ruhul Amin has been elected the executive committee chairman of NRB Bank at its board of directors meeting held on Sunday, said a press...

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  Meghna Bank EC, audit committee chairs elected

  | Updated at 11:38pm on January 20, 2021

  Tanveer Ahmed was elected as the executive committee chairman and Uzma Chowdhury was re-elected the audit committee chairperson of Meghna Bank at its 108th board...